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Daily Ohio State journal (Columbus, Ohio : 1870), 1877-10-22

Daily Ohio State journal (Columbus, Ohio : 1870), 1877-10-22 page 1

nrtrrwarl VOL. XXXVIII. COLUMBUS, MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1877. NO. 254. SIEBERT & . LILLET, 15 LANK BOOK MANUFACTURERS. Frlu(e'.rMSiter,Nlafionersanl I -i;itl liluuh I'ubllBher. BOOK BINDING 0 every Dcmiption, by the Edition or Single Volume. Opera lliitise ap4 Building (Up Stairs), COLUMBUS. FALL Hi WINTER WOOLENS. GEO. T. DUVALL, Merchant Tailor! 157 tlDUTH HIGH NT. au!8 ly MDODIE, HUBBARD&GO. 61 SOUTH jy9 tf lp HIGH STREET. GEO. W. GLEASON, Bookseller, Slationar & Newsdealer, 69 8UIITI1 II1UH ST., Opposite I lie Capitol. SEW UOODS ARRIVING DAILY. New Photograph Albums, New Autograph Books, Flornl Autograph Rook, Children's lltustrcled Rooks. INVITO ATTENTION TO OCB ORloeand Universal Scratch Books, Order Books and Student' Tablets, (patented); all sizes. Our assortment of BOXED WRITING PAPERS and KNVEfiUI'KS is jet unbroken, and wo have received new supplies of the favorite "ALEXANDRA," "DAG-MAR'' and "itOYAI.," Note and Letter sizes, in various qualities. sep29 6m lp 55! C7 Hi fill, I " ur I Hllll 4 lll!'1 StH. t OIII.V. A. W. I'ltANCIBfO. COMLY & FRANCISCO, PUBLISH KliH AND moPIUCTOHS. A. W. FRANCISCO, (Jcneral Manager. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY Indication for Tennessee and the Ohio Valley Rain areas, colder, northerly winds and rising barometer, followed by clearing weather, falling barometer and warmer, variable winds. C1ld closed in New York Saturday at 102 Letter Carriers. Washington Nation. .. There is no clas3 of public servants worse paid, harder worked and altogether (mated with greater severity than the letter carriers. The trust confided to them is deemed sufficient importance to exact from them a bond of $2000 for the faithful performance of their duties. When absent from their work on account of Bickneflr) or from other causes, they forfeit all pay during the time so lost. They work from twelve to fourteen hours every day and even on Sunday are necessarily required to givo several hours attention to their duties. Clerks who receive from $1200 to $1800 a year, for which compensation they perform light service (or seven hours daily, in pleasant, comfortable rooms, are granted thirty days' leave of absence, with pay, each year, Not so the letter carriers. For a paltry sum, out of which he must expend annually from fifty to Beventyfive dollars for hie uniform, he is compelled to perform his duties in the pouring rain, under the boiling sun, or in the bitter cold of winter, without intermission, from one year's end to the other. If, Irom constant exposure, he contracts disease, no indulgence awaits him, but, on the contrary, loss of hia scant pay and eventual dismissal from his position are his reward for services well performed. Yet a great and munificent Government has reduced the pay of these men three limes within a year, making the aggregate of such reduction one hundred and seventy dollars. Their salary now amounts to about $750 a year, barely sufficient to provide the most necessary things of life for their families. Is this just ? Is this honorable ? Is this the much vaunted fairness with which a paternal Government treats its servants? The letter carriers throughout the country have signed petitions, to be presented to Congress, asking that their salaries may be fixed at $1200 per annum ; numerous petitions signed by citizens in the different cities of the Union where the free delivery system is in vogue, accompany the carriers' request, which is a just one and ought to be granted, not as a matter of charity, but from considerations of simple justice. Capitol Policeman. Bteubenville Herald. 1 The name of Charles N. Allen has been suggested to John G. Thompson as a suitable Democrat to represent Ohio in the capacity of a Capitol policeman. If we must have a Democratic official in that capacity why not select Charles N. Allen as the man ? The authorities of the Postoffice Department do not favor Edmunds's plan to prevent frauds in the sale of postage etamps. The Postmaster General will recommend instead a law providing that Postmasters in small offices shall be paid a percentage on the amount of stamps canceled by them. BY TELEGRAPH TO 1MB OniO UTATE JO USUAL French Politic.. Paws. Oct. 21. LeGaulois and I Rippel maintain, in spile of denials of the trntn ot the assertion, that the Win istry will resign on November 6. They even assert that efforts are being made at the present moment to form a temporary Cabinet, with Gen. Berthaut, present Minister of War, as President of the Council, and the Duke DeCazes as Min ister of Foreign Affairs. This Cabinet would be charged with the duty of nre senting President MacMahon'a message to tne unamners, ana assing the Chambers to vote the moat important taxes. Lesolcil states that Minister Fortou, receiving twenty prefects on Saturday. assured them that no changes would be made in the existing administrative stall. The prefects subsequently received the same assurance from President MucMa-hon and the Duke DeBroglie. Action nt Plevna. London, Oct. 21. A Russian official dispatch from Jorny Studen reports that in one of their assaults on Friday, the Roumanians entered and occupied the second Gravilzi redoubt before Plevna, but uunng the evening the redoubt was recaptured by the Turks. A telegram dated Porcdin, Saturday, says the Roumanians captured the redoubt on Friday after three vigorous assaults, but during the night the Turks, collecting all their forces, recaptured it after a most sanguinary contest. It was expected fighting would continue Satur day. inrHOj i irrnis ol Peace Constantinople. Oct, 21. Aarifi Pasha, the new Turkish Ambassador to Paris, is instructed to state immediately on his arrival the terms on which Turkey would make peace, if the powers wish to mediate in consequence of Mukhtar Pasha's disaster. All the troops in Constantinople are being sent hastily to Irebizond. Snlelnian Pasha's Position. Constantinople, Oct. 21. Suleiman Pasha telegraphs that the Russians have incorporated 18,000 Bulgarians into their army, and that lie expects to be attacked, lie has entrenched himself so as to cover Rustchuk. Turkish Commanders. Constantinople, Oct. 21. Acbmet Eyout) Pasha will go immediately to take command at Etzeroum. Suleiman Pasha is about to send Colonel Valentine Baker and other English officers back to Con stantinople. Roniunuian Loss. Bucharest, Oct. 21. A Ruasaian ac count gives the Roumanian loss Friday as live olhcers and one hundred and tbir- tyeight men. WASHINGTON. THE NEW ORLEANS COLLECTORSHIP. Washington, Oat. 21. During the last week the fresiuent received a petition from the merchants of New Orleans strongly endorsing the appointment of Judge King as collector of that port. The President is represented as saying that in view of thiti endorHement, he has occasion to withhold the nomination from the Senate. SENATOR MORTON. Dr. Blisi, of this city, last night, left for Indianapolis in response to the request of Senator Morton and family, who desire his advice and attention, although it is not said that any immediate danger to the Senator is apprehended. Jtioat KHClitg at Mt. Lonls. St Louis, Oct. 21. A race, open to all, four-oared outriggers, was rowed on the river this afternoon, the course being from a point opposite the village ol Ven ice,, on th 5 Illinois shore, to the foot of Chouteau avenue, this city; distance about three miles. Nine boats belonging to tho Modoc, Western St. Louis and Dry Dock ClubB participated, The prizs, what is known as the Pelton cup, was won by the iempest, belonging to the Western Club. Time sixteen minutes and ten seconds. The Bob Ingersoll,of the Modoc Club, the victor of last Sunday, was second in the race, and it is claimed would have won the prizs but for a collision with a boat of the Dry Dock Club. Notwithstanding the westher was very cold and raw, the race was witnessed by a great crowd of people from the levee and top of the bridge. Close ol' the Exposition. Lodisville, Oct, 21. The Louisville Industrial Exposition closed to-night, after aa unusually successful run of six weeks duration, Steamer Arrived. Queenstown, Oct. 21 The steamship Pennsylvania from Philadelphia has arrived.SUMMARY OF SUNDAY'S NEWS. The President will appoint a veteran soldier Naval Officer at New York. A new trial has been granted Scotl and Dunlap, the Northampton bank robbers.Sir Henry Halford, Captain of the British Kiile Team, sailad Saturday for home. Ex-Congressman John Winthrop Chan dler, of New York, is dead aged fifty-one.Fire Saturday damaged the town of Portland, New Brunswick, about $300,-000 worth. The remains of Colonel William Pound, United States Attorney for Dakota, have arrived at Yankton. The steamer George Appold, cotton-laden, caught fire Saturday, near Savannah, and was scuttled and sunk. Congressman Sparks, of Illinois, will introduce an anti-subsidy resolution today in the House of Representatives. Gentlemen who are well acquainted with Senator Edmunds aver that be is in entire harmony with the President as to the Southern policy. The assets of Pike, Bros. &Co., of New Orleans, mostly in real estate, are reported largely in excess of the liabilities. Gilman, the forger, left Sing-Sing Saturday night, for Auburn prison. He had a trunk and satchel, and a lunch from Delmonico's. Pinchback left New Orleans for Washington Saturday afternoon to look after bis interests, which are boing jeopardised by contestants. Congress will be memorialized for a small appropriation for the encouragement of rifle practice by the regular army and militia of the several States. The intimation contained in New York dispatches to some Western papers, that a general strike of cigar-makers was probable, finds no confirmation. Horace D. Babcock, a medical Btudent at Syracuse University, was Saturday arrested for robbing a grave at Jamesville. The body was restored to friends. Attachments have been issued for the State officials of Fenneylvania to appear before the Pittsburg grand jury in refer- enc'to tne railroad riots of July last, The Board to examine the Washington Monument will report that the monu ment may safely be completed if a certain addition is made to Becure the foundation, The wife of Gilman, the New York forger, who is a niece of H. W. Beecher, is to be sent to an insane asylum, and her three children distributed among her friends. Shipments by the European steamers Saturday included 158,000 bushels of wheat, 15,000 boxes of cheese, 300 kegs of honey, and large quantities ol cotton,uour, and provisions. N. D. Munson, Assistant Superintend ent of the Chicago, Turlington and (putney railroad at Quincy, Illinois, has been made General Manager of the Hannibal and St. Joe road, under the receivership, and took charge Saturday. The Brotherhood of Locomotive En gineers have elected the following officers: Grand Chief Engineer, P. M. Arthur; Second Grand Engineer, Wm.RobinHon; f irst UranU Assistant Engineer, 1j ii. Grcoc; Second Grand Assistant, Wm. B. Thrall; Third Grand Assistant, Daniel Bennett ; Grand Guide, Thos. Porter : Grand Chaplain, George W. Iyer. It is stated that the Joliet Penitentiary has nineteen hundred prisoners within its walls, and a large accession may soon be expected from tho fact that the Circuit Courts, with full dockets, are sitting in all parts of the State, The number is too great, the prison being already crowded beyond itn capacity. Arrangements are being made by the officers to accommodate the-gucsts in barracks. ' A dispatch from Meadville, Penney! vania, says : Keiiame reports reached here to-day that a lest well in Bever towuship, about fifteen miles from this citv, struck a vein of heavy lubricating oil at the depth of thirty-one feet. The terrilory has been known for several years as surface ground, but it was not supposed that oil existed in paying quantity. The owners consider it good for four or five barrels per day. About two thousand acres have been leased for test. General James A. Walker, the Demo cratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, and Colonel Robert A, Rich ardson, the "debt-readjustment" candi date, held a joint discussion at Harrison burg on Monday, and a telegram to the Richmond Whig says of it : "Colonel Richardson was received by the people of this part of the lenth Legion with great enthusiasm. He made a une impression, and the people will sustain him very cor dially. If other parts of Virginia do as well as Rockingham will for the readiuat ment candidates in the pending canvass, Colonel Richardson wilt be the next Lieu tenant Governor by a triumphant ma jority." A discovery that was made Saturday indicates that among the many victims of the Brooklyn 1 heater tire last winter was a murderer, whom the police have for years vainly sought. In clearing out the remaining rubbish of the theater recent ly the workmen found two silver watcheB and a ring, which were turned over to the police property clerk. Saturday one of the watches was identified as the properly of Professor Panormo.lhe Brooklyn music teacher, who was murdered four years ago by some young ruffians, who waylaid him as he was returning from giving n music lesson. He was knocked down in Park avenue, near Oxford street, within a few feet of a brilliantly lighted drug store, beaten until he was senseles, ami then robbed of his watch and money. When he recovered himself he made his way to a car, and reached the boarding house of Mrs, Sarah Snow, Pine-apple street, where he died the next day. Mrs. Snow, who was for many years Panormo's landlady, identifies the watch as his. A friend of the Professor also identifies it. There being no export demand at present for trade dollars, the Secretary of the Treasury has ordered the Director of the Mint to discontinue the receipt of deposits therefor at several of the mints, and a general order to that effect was issued Saturday. Director Lindeman has written a letter on the subject, replying to a communication urging ihert Handing of the order of discontinuance. He says the discontinuance of its coinage is manifestly proper. The trade dollar is not legal tender, and should tho price of silver at any time recede it may become quite troublesome to holders. Its coinage under the present circumstances gives depositors a profit which should be realized by the public Treasury as representing the people of the United States, which is contrery to the spirit, if not the letter, of the law and sound public policy. Bullion or gold value of 420 grains of standard silver, which is the weight of the trade dollar, is at present eay. 94 J cents. Add 1 cents for coinage charge, and we have as the cost of the trade dollar to depositors 95J cents. In exchanging a hard dollar for a dollar in United Slates currency, the gold value of which is 97 33-100 cents, depositors realize a gain of something over onehalf per cent. Should Congress hereafter authorize the coinage of the silver dollar for circulation, the Government will no doubt promptly furnish all that may be required. A special to the Cincinnati Commercial says : Prominent Conservatives from Louisiana now in Washington show a disposition to oppose the claim of Eustid to a seat in the Sonate. They hold that he is not legally entitled to be seated, that he never was legally elected, and call to mind the circumstance that had been pretty generally lost Bight of, that Eustis was not elected by the ordinary method of the co-operation of the two houses of the L?gislature. His election was accomplished by a union of a minority of the Senate acting with a part of the Hon Be. Eleven members of tbe Senate joined a majority of the House in the eleotion, leaving twentyfour Senators in the Senate Chamber transacting business without any regard to the proceedings of the so-called joint convention of the two houses in another part of the building. Upon a fair presentation of this view of the case it is believed that a great many Democrats will vote against EuBtis, It is expected that this point will attract the attention of Mr. Divid Davis, and that he will speak on it. If he does, the effect will be marked, as his views are regarded as worthy of consideration to an unusual degree. Meanwhile Pinchback looms up again as a claimant, alleging that he was elected on the 14th of January, 1875. His former claim was based on an election in 1872 or 1873. The impression is that Pinchback's recent determination to press a new claim for a seat will only result in a declaration that nobody has been properly elected for the term ending March, 1879. Ohio. Messrs. Chew & Son, of Lawrenceburg, Indiana, have purchased the Xenia Gazette.A man named Smith had his hand crushed while coupling cars at Bucyrus, Saturday. Daniel Whileeell, aged 64, dropped dead in his corn field, near Akron, Saturday noon. Miss Jennie Thompson, of Cambridge, has a two-year-old geranium that meas- ares nine and onehalf feet iu circumfer ence. A boy named Frank Shoemaker, of JNewcomerstown, one week ago l'riday lost, was bitten on the kneo by a spider, l he wound at once commenced to o well and Sunday evening the boy died in ter rible agony. The famous gas well near McConnels- ville, caught fire on Wednesday evening, and they have not yet succeeded in put ting it out. A beautiful white flame shoots out to the distance of twenty or thirty leet with a great roaring sound. .A skeleton of a human being was ex humed on the Garlaugh farm in Beaver Creek township, Ureene county, last week while excavating gravel. The skeleton was pot much decayed, showing that it had not been buried many years. It was a complete surprise to tho men digging in the pit. I he question is, whose re mains can it be? As a Mr. Doncaster, of Geauga county, was going down Court street, at Chardon. Ohio, Saturday, his horse for some reason became uneasy, and Mr. D. lumped out ol the buggy and took bold of the bits, when the horse reared up, and on coming down struck Mr. D., knocking him down, and tramping on him l mured him so ce yerely that he died that night at about eleven o clock. Philip Reiser was driving a heavy load ol corJ-woou from Alpha, Ureene county, to D.tylon, Saturday alternoon, when he was accosted by a stranger, who, after questioning him in regnrd to the weight ol tho load, stepped aside, and unknown to Reiser threw himself beneath the wagon wheels. His neck and iaw were crushed, and he died instantly. The man was an entire stranger, and one or two loose buttons were all that was in his ckrt). At Fremont, Saturday, as Daniel Mc- Carty, a workman in the foundry of D. June & Oo.'s Champion JinKice Works. w.18 pouring some Babbit metal into a mould, the steam generated from the dampness of the mould threw melted iron from the mould info McCarly s eyes, in juring one of them badly, so that he will probably lose tho night, and burning the otber considerably. J-ie is nearsighted, and Had nis face close to the opening in the mould. He may lose both eyes. Another distressing accident occurred in Cleveland, Saturday afternoon, from the use of gasoline. Mis. James R. Tim-mins, No. 90 University street, waj attempting to fill a gasoline Btove. when the stove exploded, making a great noise, and setting lire to tho carpet on the floor. Her daughter, Elizi, eighteen years of age, rusneu lo ner iencuc, but her clothing, too, caught lire, and she was very badlv burned about the lower part of her body. Mrs. ximmins was burned badly about the arms and upper part of the body. Mr. Timmins, who was in the yard, heard the screams in the house and ran in to the assistance of hia suffering wife and child. His clothing also caught fire, and he was badly burned about the face and head. They finally succeeded iu putting out tbe names, alter all had been severely innired. The house was damaged considerably by the explosion and the fire. None of them are fatally burned, but they will carry the scars its long as (hey live. Foreign. A grand reception is preuarine in Paris for General Grant. The Shah of Per.ua intends visiting London and Paris next spring. Ojmaii Pasha telegraphs that the Rou manians attacked his right wing and were repulsed. The great cotlon strike in England is augmented by the twiners and piercers of Mannock s mills. Suleiman Pasha is concentrating liis forces on tho Lorn in front of the Czaro-witch's left wing. A Smilza dispatch says rain is falling heavily with every prospect of a long continuance. The roans are all but iru- passablo. Turkish deserlers claim that food is scarce in Plevna. There are 130,000 men in the city who can only ba made to surrender by hunger, The Russians have before Kars 70,000 men. Mukhtar Pasha's army at the time of the battle did not comprise more than 40,000 men. Amongs these were fourteen battalions drawn from the garri son of Kars. Ihe Ottoman field army lost at least onethird of its strength in killed, wounded and captured. The few battalions remaining available retired upon Erzeroum, and united with the troops of Kurd Ismail Pasha and those from Pervnek form the nucleus of the new army for the relief of Jvars. The Grand Duke Michael can safely leave 40,000 men in front of Kars, and with the remaining press forward toward Eizsroum. NEWARK. The Deiredaliius of the Pot-Hnnt- ers Tho Pick as a Weapon. Newark, Ohio, Oct. 21, To the Editor of the Ohio State Journal : Pot-hunters have commenced their an nual depredations on quail in this.'part of the country. These birds, the present season being unusually plentiful, are slaughtered by these mangy cusses in great numbers. The commonest scrub among them, if industrious (these fellows all are), can make a full bag per day. They are well aware, all of them, that to shoot or destroy quail before the 15th of November is unlawful. What do they care for law, if they can evade the penalty, or for the proprieties that gentlemen give heed to? Nothing at all, Catch them poaching, and they have an excuse ready. They are out to kill a bird for a sick person. This excuse, ninety-nine timeain a hundred, is a lie, and you know it. Try to shame them for the offense 1 You can't, You might as well try to develop a blush on the face of a donkey, their half-brother. There is just one way to learn these chaps to respect law, and that is to enforce it on them when it can be proven they are violators of it. Let every gentleman in town and country make it his business to prosecute such of them as comes under his observation, and the crack of a gun out of season will be very unfrequent. Should any of the would be sportsmen anywhere take offense at the above, it will be satisfactory so far as the writer is concerned. An altercation took place near the depot, in this city, on Thursday afternoon last, between a Baltimore and Ohio section boss and one of his hands, which resulted in the boss hitting the other party in tbe back with the sharp end of a pick, driving it into him five and a half inches and penetrating one of his lungs. The injured man experienced considerable inconvenience from the wound at first, but is now comfortable, with a good prospect of being in condition for another shindy. Who can tell but that as harmless a looking tool as tke pick may not in a short time supersede thebowie and revolver? The Record of a Week at Delaware. Delaware, Oct. 20. To the Editor of ths Ohio State Journal : The affairs of Delaware have experienced little change for a week or two. On Sunday Dr. Taylor, President of Wooster University, assisted in the dedicatory ex ercises of the Presbyterian Church. The building has been remodeled, freecoed and greatly Improved in external form and internal attractiveness. The whole amount of indebtedness was paid. The society and pastor (Rev. N. Smith) seem to be active, useful and harmonious. Dr. Payne, of the University, preaches in jriqua next saouain. The University buildings are undergo ing quite extensive repairs. Prof. Semana has accepted an invita tion to deliver his course of lectures on Chemistry before. the students of the Columbus Medical College. He continues the work of Prof. Sterling, of Kenyon College, whose health, has failed. Prof. Williams has been absent tho past week, delivering a course of lectures on Urammar and Language to the Stark county teachers' institute. The Professor has usually more calls than he can nil during the college year. Prof. Nelson lectures next week before the Cuyahoga county teachers' institute General Reid, who was severely injured by being thrown from his buggy last week, is slowly improving. Schuyler Collax lectured here on Thursday evening to a small liouie. Very short notice had been given of the speaker and lus subject, ilo spoke on "Abraham Lincoln," and delivered an oration full of pathos, wit and eloquence. lown matters are quiet. The Delaware housekeeper rriuice.? iu the recent rainfall, the Delaware business man looks happy again, and the Delaware policeman leans over the saloon counter and wishes "suthin' 'ud turn up. NASBY. Hr. AinKby Assists in Ihe Ohio Elec tion Hon He Hot Into the Labor ICoveueut, anil What Ihe Result Was. Toledo Blade.J Co.vfedbit X Roads. Wicu is in the State uv Kentuck ? Oct. 15, 1877, At the rekest uv the giielis Richard Bishop, wich people supposed didn't know how to run a campaue, I camo to Toledo, Ohio, to assist in gittin together the Democratic strength, and asshoorin the triumph uv that Dimocnsy uv wich. so fur, I hev bin a ardent supporter. And I may say, in parenthesis, that Dimocrisy hez no advantage over mo in that respeck, for ef I hey bin a support to Dimocrisy, Dimocrisy hcz bin a support to me. Ihe elecshun day passed oil, and every man did his dooty. The result will gladden the heart of the Corners. We have elected our Guvernor, and we hey se-coored a majority uv Ihe Legislacher, wich gives us another Senator. Halle- loojy I But the result uv the elcckshuu in the county was a astonisher wich I hevn't bin able to account for yit. The workingmen tiy the county 'hf d organized, for the pur-pus uv bettcrin ther condishun. Sum uv em, wich reely do work, hey bed ruther a close lime, and hev bin groanin over ther troubles, but, ther are sum thousands wich don't nver work at all, and a lot of lawyers and doctors, and sich like labrin men, wich alluz do the most healthy groanin on sich okkashenH. "In the interest uy the Diuieoralik candidates, I urged the labrin men along all 1 cood, for ninetenths ny them wich does work, and which, tz 1 tiggered it, wood he troo to the movement, ulongs to the Kadi kels, nalerally, and we expectid to bring bacK the JJimekraliK lams wich bid stray ed into these pasters back into the fold on the mornin uv the eleckshun. The day passed and everything looked lovely. The labrin men wuz out in ther strength, and we wuz certain that we hed drawd enuff votes from the Radikels to in-ahoor the success uv our tikkit. And that evenin I Bot down with the candidates, and many were the beakers that wc quaff ed in jnbilatin over Ihe redenisheu uy a R;puljlikin stronghold. 1 retired that nite z happy ez a lord. and ez comfortable (z a man cood be wich bed achieved a victory. I slept the sleep uv the man wich hez discharged his dooty and is tolerable certain uy geltin his pay for it. . . . The mornin eun wuz a Btreemin thro the winder uv my room that blessed Wednesday mornin. I sent down for a paper, and while I wuz pullin on the boots tbe Dimekntic Central com mittee hed given me, I glanced at it. I wuz anxshua to leest my eyes on the triumph I hed acheeved by doopin tbe toopid workinmen into running a tikkit uv their own and throwin away ther votes. Horror I The labrin men hed swep the county. by a majority uy nearly two thousand I 1 am a man uy nrompt ackshen in all matters uy prinsipie. I may be slack in matters pertaimn to myself. 1 am crini- nelly slow in all things wich concern meerly myself. I have loitered when in- vitashens to drink hev bin extended to others, and hey santered, very frekently, so slowly as not to git in before the change wuz made; but in public matters where there is pruiBiple involved, no man kin be more prompt than l 1 lookt twice to make shoor that ther wuz no mistake about tbe majorities, and that workin men hed reely kerried the county when I started to the oftis uy the hed centre. There wuz no time to lose. I didn't want to come in at the'eleventh hour. So prompt wuz I that I went with wun boot on, and no hat. It wuz seven o'clock a. m., and ther wuz no time to lose. I enrolled myself ez a workin-iuan im-mejitly, and well it wuz that I wuz ez prompt ez I wuz, For within a minit there cum to that offis a thousand Re-publikins and Dimecrats, wich claimed the rite to enroll theirselves in the noble army uv labrin men. They cum from every direckshun. Ther wuz in that throng every man wich hed bin bustid for a nominashen in either the Republikin or Dirnekratic party, for ten years, and tbe most prom-isin assortment uv heretofore unknown offis-seekers wich I ever saw. And every blessid man uy em, without excepshun, all commenst a speech, towunst, and in korus, on rites uv the down-trodden labrin man, and all uy em howled the same speech. I saw these Bauie men yisterday workin zelusly for tbe Dimecratic or Republikin tikkets, and afore the eleckshun they hed bin most induBtrusly a standinon the corners uv the street, smokin very cheap cigars when they had to buy em theirselves, and very expensive ones when they wuz bought by other people. "Are yoo goin to take these people in ?" I shreeked in agony. "Can't yoo see that ther ain't offises enuff to go around ?" "Sir!" exclaimed they all feercely, " in this holy crooaade agin cappytle, and for the borny-handid toilers, we asBert ther is offises enuff. Ther wuz about four thousand votes, and we, who from circumstances didn't git in soon cnuf to vote, will swell the number to five thousand. Very good. Let the Sheriff-elect imme- jitly appint two thousand fitfe hundred deppyties, and the Treasurer-elect stand up lor the rites uy the labrin man, by ap-pinting two thousadd five hundred clerks, and then keep out uy the organisashen the bloatid bankers, merchants, and them ci own shops and sich, so that we kin tax tliem, to pay our salaries. We shell keep out enuff cappytle to tBX to support us. Cappytle hez hed its sway, so far-laber comes in." And they yotid to keep the books open iiu nine mai aay, and men close 'em, i her didn't any more come, thank hevin, The nartv in utmna annff'tn tint,l 1.A but, merciful hevinBl onlesa the sejestion a uuv 4ioieu it acuu onto, wnai are tbey all agoin to do ? They kin elect a Coun cil, next spring, and that Council kin vote to pay the labrers $50 a day, but they wou't take that. Ez they all expect offis. wat good will it be to offer 'cm work nt any price? I sympathizs with the labrin man, jist afore every elekshun. but I think I shell git out uy tho organizashen and go back to Kentucky wher ther ain't any laber done that hurts. Ther is too eager an amire- Bhiaehen uv offis to make it comfortable lor a man like me, and the ranks uv the labrin men are likely to be swelled too fast for my purpus, Wat chance is ther for one man among five thousand, and all uy era as Keen ez 1 am 1 The temprense movement is hevin a run up ther, but I indignantly refoczed to jine it. i wuz askt to deliver a tem prense lecter, but I declined. "I'm not a reformed drunkard," Eed I. "That's easily fixed." remarked the rekester. "All yoo hey to do too is to quit." 1 heerd one man make a speech on the street corner. Rum, like the grasehoiiDer." Bed he. is a oilmen. went home last night, and went to the pantry for suthin to eat, and it wuz bare. I looked at my wife and children, and ther they BOt. cold and hungry. Ther wuz no food, no fooel, iu the house wat ehood hev pervided for em hed gone for rum. Fz I looked into ther pale, pinched faces, and ther euiauhated forms, awakened conehense strove with me, and I then and there took a solemn oath never to drink aeain onless I wuz asked." The eleckshun in Ohio is a triumnh butitdou't do me any good. Therain't no way uv reeching my postofiia for three years, and I can't wait. I Bhel be in the silent tomb before that, and the worms will be at me. Still. I did my dooty. PETROLEUM V. NASBV. Workin-man, TO ENLIST AS A SEAMAN, The Condition on Which a Phi In. delphla Ranker's Hon Escapes Arrest.Sergeant O.ttes, of the First Precinct. arranged for forgery before Justice Flain-mer at the Tombs Police Court yesterday a fashionably dressed young man named E. G. Slewart, the aon of E. N. Stewart, a Philadelphia banker. Young Slewart for some time past had been visiting down town bankers, presenting drafts for various small sums purporting to be signed by his father in Philadelphia. A few days go he obtained from Messrs. Sterntt Colburn !j70 and from Messrs. M. Lockwocd & Co. $40. These firms reported the matter at the First precinct station house, and the re sult was the arrest of young Slewart yes- teruay. un his person were found a number of epurions drafts for sums varying from $25 to $80. In court he admitted his guilt and said that he had gambled unsuccessfully with the money he nan obtained on the dratts. Several gentlemen, friends of his father, were in Court and explained to Justice Flammer that all the drafts would be duly honored in Philadelphia. It appears the father, on learning it was his son who was uttering these drafts, telegraphed this fact to the gentlemen. Justice Flammer considered the matter, and finally allowed the complainant, Mr. Lonkwood, to withdraw his complaint, the only one taken so far. Justice Flammer said he would permit this for the sake of the young man's father and his family, on the condition, however, suggested by the young man's friends, that ho forthwith enlist in the United States Navy. He promised to do this, and was discharged. It was said in Court that he had frequently been guilty of similar acts in Philadelphia, but that his father had always hon ored tne oralis to save bis son irom arrest. Aent, Insure Thyself. Philadelphia Bulletin. 1 An insurance agent whose buccinater muscles had been developed during a long and highly successful business career to a most astonishing degree ol hardness, and whose fertility of imagination was equaled only by his fluency of expression, while professionally engaged in the lm penetrable forests of South America, fell in one day with a huge boa constrictor, " Tell me, my saurian friend," asked he, " have you as yetffectedan insurance upon your very valuable life ? " The boa constrictor merely wiggled its tail slightly and winked nervously with its lei l eye. ihe insurance agent, how ever, regarded these actiona as implying a negation, and briskly continued, The act of insuring one's life in an entirely reliable company such a; The Great Chizzlum, which I have the hon or to represent is a duty that every individual owes to his fam ily or friends. You, my dear serpent lead a life of constant danger, and al though the character of the risk will com pel me to charge you somewhat more than the usual rates, think, think, my good sir, what a sense of acquiescent re liance in tbe decrees of Providence will accrue to you when you know that, come what will, your large and interesting wife and tamuy always will be comfortably provided lor. "ray permit me to con sider the matter as settled and forthwith to make out an application in your name for a policy." Having listened patiently to this long discourse, at its conclusion the Boa Constrictor turned its regard calmly upon the insurance agent, and in a gentle voice observed, "ion, l presume, long since have enected an insurance unon your own life, and now feel the calm pleasures that you noiu out to me," "JN-no, replied the insurance aeent. somewhat disconcerted by the turn given to the conversation; "N-no. I reerret to state that I have not. The fact is" 'The fact is," said the Boa Constrictor, taking up his unfinished sentence, "that you have committed a capital error. My life, I trust, will be prolonged for yet a considerable period; but yours, I opine, is worth but a few moments' purchase." Having said this, the boa constrictor crushed the insurance agent to a jelly, licked him all oyer, and swallowed him whole. Moral. A man does well to adjust his own affairs before meddling with tbe affairs of others. A Percussion Torch. New Haven Register. The New Haven Gas Light company are having made a percussion torch to be used by the lamplighters in lighting the public gaa lamps about the city. This invention will do away wii the former custom of. climbing the lamp-posts and striking a match. The torch consists of a small perforated brass cylinder at one end of a three-foot rod, while at the other end, in connection with the handle, is a pin or lever which, upon being pulled down, discharges a small quantity of ful- ruinate wilhin the cylinder, which in stantlv iornites LfiA pas. The cost of the fulminate is something less than thaUf AW DEALERS SUPPLIED. lOO SOUTH matches. To facilitate the use of the torch, and also on account of other merits it is said to possess, the company have adopted an improved valve, the use of which, together with the torch, is likely to prove a matter of economy and convenience in street lighting. Plautn Tor Vases. A writer in the Garden offers some good suggestions in regard to planting vases, the substance of which we copy, as giving much valuable information. The most suitable positions for them, ho says, are the sides of flights of steps at each side of a doorway, on terrace walks, or along a balustrade; they should not be placed too near windows, nor should they be anywhere crowded. Various materials are employed in the manufacture of vases, such as stone, iron, and plaster, but the best are made of terra-cotta. Vases are of various sizes and chapes, some being broad and shallow, others deep and nar row. The shape of the vaso will determine the style of planting. A flat vase should be planted with rather dwarf plants with trailers hanging over the rim. Deep and narrow vases on the contrary should be furnished with tall plants. It would be out ot character to plant a tulip- shaped or oriental vase with very dwarf plants; they require to be furnished with something tall end having drooping branches, as for instance a fuchsia. As a rule vases do not receive the attention they deserve. They are frequently left until the last, and tilled with odds and ends after the beds in the flower garden have been planted. Vases beforo being planted should he well drained, and the best of soil for them is turfy loam and rotten manure, to which may be added a little leaf mould. Most of the plants ussd for garden decoration will be found suitable for vases. Geraniums will in variably form the staple, but to them may ba added lobelias, lucheias, centanrea- gymnocarpa merembryantbemums, ivy-leaved geraniums, tropieoluma, and heli-otropsB, to which we add niau- randyas, variegated periwinkle, ach-ryanthns, coleue, the new trailer pylogeno, and in our climate for the center dracsens; other plants he says may be also used with good effect. In planting a broad, flat vase, begin at the rim with plants that will hang over the edge, Biich as lobelias, ivy-leaved gerani ums and troricoleums. Lst the next circle consist of Bomewhat taller plants, such as variegated geraniums, and finish off with the tallest in tho center. When tropseDlums or ivy-leaved geraniums are used for dressing tho sides, it is a good plan to run one or two pieces of copper wire round the outside or the vase to which to tie the plants, in order that they may not bo chafed by the wind. 'Ihe petunia is a useful plant for vases, inasmuch as it flowers more profiiBely when pinched for root-room than when unrestricted in that respect, but it requires plenty of water; watering, in deed, will demand careiul attention throughout the summer, and when the plants have made good root growth liquid manure may be given twice weeK. ... as regards boxes, in Western London it has become fashionable for every window to become a miniature flower garden, on which considerable Bums are annually spent, and notwithstanding the smoke and dirt they look remarkably gay. For window boxes, like vases, we have a large variety of suitable plants, among which may be named stocks, asters, geraniums, fuchsias, mig nonette, and musk, as also lobelia, ivy- geraniums, anu mcsemDryanthemums to hang over the sides, and canary-bird flowers trained on strings up the sides, to the top of the windows, so as to form an arch. A Few Words to Girls. Exquisite manners, let me tell you, are worth several other polite accomplish ments put together, vv hen l see a school girl who remembers to ofl'er her seat to an older lady or an elderly gentleman; who remembers to give the newspaper to her father when he comes down to breakfast and has only a few moments to read its world Bheaf of news; who remembers that it is not kind to hurry her elder sister's reading of some attractive book, nor polite to begin the book until the other has finished it; who remembers toBhut the doors softly, and to find places in the Bible for aged eyee, to be good to the little hindering ones who are always craving something from Bister, and who remembers always to be a lady everywhere, I am sure that I have found one who will be a queen of home, if not of Bociety. A graceful, gracious, tender, considerate girl will inevitably make a glorious woman by fnd by. From the sweet, half opened bud there will be evolved the rich perfection of the lovely flower. You niust think it troublesome sometimes to be so particular as to the way you speak to the people in your bouse. "It is only brother Dan or cousin Matilda," you Bay; "why should I modulate my voice and Boften my tones, and be so gentle in my bearimr just to them ; .because it is tbe being loyeiy ana courteous anu winsome every day and all day, to the brother or cousin, to the companion and the friend, to the child and the servant, which will mould you insensibly into a gentle woman, whose manners win ue as much a part of her self aB the inner fiber of her character. To such a one it will be as impossible to commit an act of rudeness as lo tell a lie, and as natural to say and do agreeable things as to put on her gloves before going to church. Christian at Work. Transplanting:. The only advantage which is claimed for fall transplanting over spring transplanting, is that the roots become settled in the ground and new fibers are formed which induce an earlier spring growth and a more reciprocal action between leaves and roots. We are not advocates of fall transplanting for the climate of Chicago, BoBton, or even New York, except for those plants which are never in jured by our severe cold or extremes of temperature. Hut for those who have already settled upon transplanting this fall, we would say do it now as Boon as it can be well done. If it is a fact that the roots will make a fibrous growth hich is not killed by alternations of freezing and thawing, then the sooner they are transplanted the better, after the leaves have ceased to act. This may be ascertained by the first discoloration of the leaves, which is proof that their cella are clogged with insoluble matter, that iney no longer receive sap irom ine roots, IPS S3 13 ;0. Will have on sulo till l'urthernoilce. POTATOES, CABBAGE And APPLES, lly tbe car load or In lots to suit purchasers. Also, Sweet Potatoes, Onions, Quinces," Grapes, Chestnut?, Etc. POUBLTH STREET. DIED. Rddisill On Sunday, October 21st, Edwin, son of Rev. J. E. and Tillio M. Kudi-sill, aged four years and nine months. Funeral services at Wesley Chapel at 2 o'clock p. m. to-day. Lynab Geo. Lynas, Sr., at his residence, EaBt Third avenue, Saturday, October 20, 1877, at 1:30 p. m. Funeral will take place from the family residence, No. 24 East Third avenue, at 2:311 p. m. Kriends are invited to attend without further notice. SnAFFBE Doctor Jacob Shaffer, at his residence, Jefferson township, Saturday, October 20, 1877, at 4 p. m., aged eighty-three years one month and eighteen dys. The funeral will take place at Reynolds-burg, Tuesday, at 10 o'clock a.m. Dispatch copy and charge Journal. HrjTCUESON In Philadelphia, Pa., October 21st, Lcaas7iA D. Hdtcubbon, wife of the late Joseph Ilutcheson, daughter of the late David W. Deshler. Notice of funeral hereafter. 2t New Advertisonaentfs. .ES Great French Remedy IH PA HIS AL0N3, 1,300,000 BOTTLES! O YEE'S Carmelite MELISSA CORDIAL (Enn lo Sfelisiciles Cannes,) 300 YEARSMiEPUTATION AS A Sovereign Kemedy In eases or Apoplexy. Paralysis, Dyspepsia, Colic, Headache, Indigestion, Pnlntuess, Chills aud Fever, Etc. Get tho genuine. Beware of imitations. Sold by all Druggists. General Depot at BUYER'S, No. 59 Park Place, New York. R. Jouc3 & fc'on,Wholesale Druggists Columbus, O, sepl7 ly lp ARTISTS' GOLUMft A large assortment of Antique Pottery ! Taken from the collections of Prof. Schlie-man, British .Museum, Indian Mounds of Ohio, and Cesnola collections. COLOIES, for decorating. BOOK of IFSIGNV IS&TIU C-TIONS.PLATFORMS, BRUSH KM, etc. COLOHSfor China Painting. OILS for China Painting. BRUSHES, elc.for China Painting, at UHLMAN1V & CLOCK'S, 218 SOI TH HIGH ST. or-.m 1v 1 4n and that they have consequently no longer the power ot elaborating material for their own Bupport or that of tho plant upon which they Btill exist. KuralJXtw xorker. Hem Way ta Pay Old Debts. A singular way to obtain payment of money due a Hindoo is for the creditor to plant himself before the door of the debt or, and vow that he means to remain there, without food, until his money is paid. As a point of honor, which it is deemed impossible to violate, the debtor must, in like manner, remain without food; and if payment is not made, the parties immediately begin to put their mutual power of enduring hunger to the test. This trial might sometimes move illusory. and, therefore, the creditor usually makes sure that the fasting of the debtor is real by cutting off his supplies. This kind of dherma, employed by troops against their paymaster, or the prime minister, or the sovereign himself, has often been effectual in obtaining their arrears of pay. In America the creditor often starves, but the debtor grows fat by paying ten cents on the dollar. A Romantic Marriage. Winnipeg Froe Prcss.l A romantic marriage was celebrated in this city a day or two ago by the Rev. Mr. Bell. Of two young men who "bached" together, one had a pretty sister down in Ontario, and it is not to be wondered at that hia chum fell in love with the fair face depicted in a portrait which the fond brother proudly exhibited. A correspondence between the admirer and admired begun, which culminated this week in tbe happy union of the twain the day after the young lady's arrival, up to which time the parties had never met. Coal Ashes as a fertilizer are said to be very beneficial for tomatoes and potatoes, and to a less extent for peas and beans, Moreover, they improve the mechanical condition of the soil, and are therefore especially beneficial to clayey and rigid land generally. They should bo worked in deeply and uniformly in the proportion of, say, one part of ashes to two parts of mold. As it takjes a long time to decompose them, their fertilizing properties are slow in action, but continuous. To obtain the best advantage from their use, some other kind of manure should be applied in conjunction with them. Aa there are seldom enough for field culture, the garden is the beat place in which to use them, and inasmuch as they are generally considered mere inconvenient refuae, all, the advantage secured from their uss, will be clear gain.

nrtrrwarl VOL. XXXVIII. COLUMBUS, MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1877. NO. 254. SIEBERT & . LILLET, 15 LANK BOOK MANUFACTURERS. Frlu(e'.rMSiter,Nlafionersanl I -i;itl liluuh I'ubllBher. BOOK BINDING 0 every Dcmiption, by the Edition or Single Volume. Opera lliitise ap4 Building (Up Stairs), COLUMBUS. FALL Hi WINTER WOOLENS. GEO. T. DUVALL, Merchant Tailor! 157 tlDUTH HIGH NT. au!8 ly MDODIE, HUBBARD&GO. 61 SOUTH jy9 tf lp HIGH STREET. GEO. W. GLEASON, Bookseller, Slationar & Newsdealer, 69 8UIITI1 II1UH ST., Opposite I lie Capitol. SEW UOODS ARRIVING DAILY. New Photograph Albums, New Autograph Books, Flornl Autograph Rook, Children's lltustrcled Rooks. INVITO ATTENTION TO OCB ORloeand Universal Scratch Books, Order Books and Student' Tablets, (patented); all sizes. Our assortment of BOXED WRITING PAPERS and KNVEfiUI'KS is jet unbroken, and wo have received new supplies of the favorite "ALEXANDRA," "DAG-MAR'' and "itOYAI.," Note and Letter sizes, in various qualities. sep29 6m lp 55! C7 Hi fill, I " ur I Hllll 4 lll!'1 StH. t OIII.V. A. W. I'ltANCIBfO. COMLY & FRANCISCO, PUBLISH KliH AND moPIUCTOHS. A. W. FRANCISCO, (Jcneral Manager. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY Indication for Tennessee and the Ohio Valley Rain areas, colder, northerly winds and rising barometer, followed by clearing weather, falling barometer and warmer, variable winds. C1ld closed in New York Saturday at 102 Letter Carriers. Washington Nation. .. There is no clas3 of public servants worse paid, harder worked and altogether (mated with greater severity than the letter carriers. The trust confided to them is deemed sufficient importance to exact from them a bond of $2000 for the faithful performance of their duties. When absent from their work on account of Bickneflr) or from other causes, they forfeit all pay during the time so lost. They work from twelve to fourteen hours every day and even on Sunday are necessarily required to givo several hours attention to their duties. Clerks who receive from $1200 to $1800 a year, for which compensation they perform light service (or seven hours daily, in pleasant, comfortable rooms, are granted thirty days' leave of absence, with pay, each year, Not so the letter carriers. For a paltry sum, out of which he must expend annually from fifty to Beventyfive dollars for hie uniform, he is compelled to perform his duties in the pouring rain, under the boiling sun, or in the bitter cold of winter, without intermission, from one year's end to the other. If, Irom constant exposure, he contracts disease, no indulgence awaits him, but, on the contrary, loss of hia scant pay and eventual dismissal from his position are his reward for services well performed. Yet a great and munificent Government has reduced the pay of these men three limes within a year, making the aggregate of such reduction one hundred and seventy dollars. Their salary now amounts to about $750 a year, barely sufficient to provide the most necessary things of life for their families. Is this just ? Is this honorable ? Is this the much vaunted fairness with which a paternal Government treats its servants? The letter carriers throughout the country have signed petitions, to be presented to Congress, asking that their salaries may be fixed at $1200 per annum ; numerous petitions signed by citizens in the different cities of the Union where the free delivery system is in vogue, accompany the carriers' request, which is a just one and ought to be granted, not as a matter of charity, but from considerations of simple justice. Capitol Policeman. Bteubenville Herald. 1 The name of Charles N. Allen has been suggested to John G. Thompson as a suitable Democrat to represent Ohio in the capacity of a Capitol policeman. If we must have a Democratic official in that capacity why not select Charles N. Allen as the man ? The authorities of the Postoffice Department do not favor Edmunds's plan to prevent frauds in the sale of postage etamps. The Postmaster General will recommend instead a law providing that Postmasters in small offices shall be paid a percentage on the amount of stamps canceled by them. BY TELEGRAPH TO 1MB OniO UTATE JO USUAL French Politic.. Paws. Oct. 21. LeGaulois and I Rippel maintain, in spile of denials of the trntn ot the assertion, that the Win istry will resign on November 6. They even assert that efforts are being made at the present moment to form a temporary Cabinet, with Gen. Berthaut, present Minister of War, as President of the Council, and the Duke DeCazes as Min ister of Foreign Affairs. This Cabinet would be charged with the duty of nre senting President MacMahon'a message to tne unamners, ana assing the Chambers to vote the moat important taxes. Lesolcil states that Minister Fortou, receiving twenty prefects on Saturday. assured them that no changes would be made in the existing administrative stall. The prefects subsequently received the same assurance from President MucMa-hon and the Duke DeBroglie. Action nt Plevna. London, Oct. 21. A Russian official dispatch from Jorny Studen reports that in one of their assaults on Friday, the Roumanians entered and occupied the second Gravilzi redoubt before Plevna, but uunng the evening the redoubt was recaptured by the Turks. A telegram dated Porcdin, Saturday, says the Roumanians captured the redoubt on Friday after three vigorous assaults, but during the night the Turks, collecting all their forces, recaptured it after a most sanguinary contest. It was expected fighting would continue Satur day. inrHOj i irrnis ol Peace Constantinople. Oct, 21. Aarifi Pasha, the new Turkish Ambassador to Paris, is instructed to state immediately on his arrival the terms on which Turkey would make peace, if the powers wish to mediate in consequence of Mukhtar Pasha's disaster. All the troops in Constantinople are being sent hastily to Irebizond. Snlelnian Pasha's Position. Constantinople, Oct. 21. Suleiman Pasha telegraphs that the Russians have incorporated 18,000 Bulgarians into their army, and that lie expects to be attacked, lie has entrenched himself so as to cover Rustchuk. Turkish Commanders. Constantinople, Oct. 21. Acbmet Eyout) Pasha will go immediately to take command at Etzeroum. Suleiman Pasha is about to send Colonel Valentine Baker and other English officers back to Con stantinople. Roniunuian Loss. Bucharest, Oct. 21. A Ruasaian ac count gives the Roumanian loss Friday as live olhcers and one hundred and tbir- tyeight men. WASHINGTON. THE NEW ORLEANS COLLECTORSHIP. Washington, Oat. 21. During the last week the fresiuent received a petition from the merchants of New Orleans strongly endorsing the appointment of Judge King as collector of that port. The President is represented as saying that in view of thiti endorHement, he has occasion to withhold the nomination from the Senate. SENATOR MORTON. Dr. Blisi, of this city, last night, left for Indianapolis in response to the request of Senator Morton and family, who desire his advice and attention, although it is not said that any immediate danger to the Senator is apprehended. Jtioat KHClitg at Mt. Lonls. St Louis, Oct. 21. A race, open to all, four-oared outriggers, was rowed on the river this afternoon, the course being from a point opposite the village ol Ven ice,, on th 5 Illinois shore, to the foot of Chouteau avenue, this city; distance about three miles. Nine boats belonging to tho Modoc, Western St. Louis and Dry Dock ClubB participated, The prizs, what is known as the Pelton cup, was won by the iempest, belonging to the Western Club. Time sixteen minutes and ten seconds. The Bob Ingersoll,of the Modoc Club, the victor of last Sunday, was second in the race, and it is claimed would have won the prizs but for a collision with a boat of the Dry Dock Club. Notwithstanding the westher was very cold and raw, the race was witnessed by a great crowd of people from the levee and top of the bridge. Close ol' the Exposition. Lodisville, Oct, 21. The Louisville Industrial Exposition closed to-night, after aa unusually successful run of six weeks duration, Steamer Arrived. Queenstown, Oct. 21 The steamship Pennsylvania from Philadelphia has arrived.SUMMARY OF SUNDAY'S NEWS. The President will appoint a veteran soldier Naval Officer at New York. A new trial has been granted Scotl and Dunlap, the Northampton bank robbers.Sir Henry Halford, Captain of the British Kiile Team, sailad Saturday for home. Ex-Congressman John Winthrop Chan dler, of New York, is dead aged fifty-one.Fire Saturday damaged the town of Portland, New Brunswick, about $300,-000 worth. The remains of Colonel William Pound, United States Attorney for Dakota, have arrived at Yankton. The steamer George Appold, cotton-laden, caught fire Saturday, near Savannah, and was scuttled and sunk. Congressman Sparks, of Illinois, will introduce an anti-subsidy resolution today in the House of Representatives. Gentlemen who are well acquainted with Senator Edmunds aver that be is in entire harmony with the President as to the Southern policy. The assets of Pike, Bros. &Co., of New Orleans, mostly in real estate, are reported largely in excess of the liabilities. Gilman, the forger, left Sing-Sing Saturday night, for Auburn prison. He had a trunk and satchel, and a lunch from Delmonico's. Pinchback left New Orleans for Washington Saturday afternoon to look after bis interests, which are boing jeopardised by contestants. Congress will be memorialized for a small appropriation for the encouragement of rifle practice by the regular army and militia of the several States. The intimation contained in New York dispatches to some Western papers, that a general strike of cigar-makers was probable, finds no confirmation. Horace D. Babcock, a medical Btudent at Syracuse University, was Saturday arrested for robbing a grave at Jamesville. The body was restored to friends. Attachments have been issued for the State officials of Fenneylvania to appear before the Pittsburg grand jury in refer- enc'to tne railroad riots of July last, The Board to examine the Washington Monument will report that the monu ment may safely be completed if a certain addition is made to Becure the foundation, The wife of Gilman, the New York forger, who is a niece of H. W. Beecher, is to be sent to an insane asylum, and her three children distributed among her friends. Shipments by the European steamers Saturday included 158,000 bushels of wheat, 15,000 boxes of cheese, 300 kegs of honey, and large quantities ol cotton,uour, and provisions. N. D. Munson, Assistant Superintend ent of the Chicago, Turlington and (putney railroad at Quincy, Illinois, has been made General Manager of the Hannibal and St. Joe road, under the receivership, and took charge Saturday. The Brotherhood of Locomotive En gineers have elected the following officers: Grand Chief Engineer, P. M. Arthur; Second Grand Engineer, Wm.RobinHon; f irst UranU Assistant Engineer, 1j ii. Grcoc; Second Grand Assistant, Wm. B. Thrall; Third Grand Assistant, Daniel Bennett ; Grand Guide, Thos. Porter : Grand Chaplain, George W. Iyer. It is stated that the Joliet Penitentiary has nineteen hundred prisoners within its walls, and a large accession may soon be expected from tho fact that the Circuit Courts, with full dockets, are sitting in all parts of the State, The number is too great, the prison being already crowded beyond itn capacity. Arrangements are being made by the officers to accommodate the-gucsts in barracks. ' A dispatch from Meadville, Penney! vania, says : Keiiame reports reached here to-day that a lest well in Bever towuship, about fifteen miles from this citv, struck a vein of heavy lubricating oil at the depth of thirty-one feet. The terrilory has been known for several years as surface ground, but it was not supposed that oil existed in paying quantity. The owners consider it good for four or five barrels per day. About two thousand acres have been leased for test. General James A. Walker, the Demo cratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, and Colonel Robert A, Rich ardson, the "debt-readjustment" candi date, held a joint discussion at Harrison burg on Monday, and a telegram to the Richmond Whig says of it : "Colonel Richardson was received by the people of this part of the lenth Legion with great enthusiasm. He made a une impression, and the people will sustain him very cor dially. If other parts of Virginia do as well as Rockingham will for the readiuat ment candidates in the pending canvass, Colonel Richardson wilt be the next Lieu tenant Governor by a triumphant ma jority." A discovery that was made Saturday indicates that among the many victims of the Brooklyn 1 heater tire last winter was a murderer, whom the police have for years vainly sought. In clearing out the remaining rubbish of the theater recent ly the workmen found two silver watcheB and a ring, which were turned over to the police property clerk. Saturday one of the watches was identified as the properly of Professor Panormo.lhe Brooklyn music teacher, who was murdered four years ago by some young ruffians, who waylaid him as he was returning from giving n music lesson. He was knocked down in Park avenue, near Oxford street, within a few feet of a brilliantly lighted drug store, beaten until he was senseles, ami then robbed of his watch and money. When he recovered himself he made his way to a car, and reached the boarding house of Mrs, Sarah Snow, Pine-apple street, where he died the next day. Mrs. Snow, who was for many years Panormo's landlady, identifies the watch as his. A friend of the Professor also identifies it. There being no export demand at present for trade dollars, the Secretary of the Treasury has ordered the Director of the Mint to discontinue the receipt of deposits therefor at several of the mints, and a general order to that effect was issued Saturday. Director Lindeman has written a letter on the subject, replying to a communication urging ihert Handing of the order of discontinuance. He says the discontinuance of its coinage is manifestly proper. The trade dollar is not legal tender, and should tho price of silver at any time recede it may become quite troublesome to holders. Its coinage under the present circumstances gives depositors a profit which should be realized by the public Treasury as representing the people of the United States, which is contrery to the spirit, if not the letter, of the law and sound public policy. Bullion or gold value of 420 grains of standard silver, which is the weight of the trade dollar, is at present eay. 94 J cents. Add 1 cents for coinage charge, and we have as the cost of the trade dollar to depositors 95J cents. In exchanging a hard dollar for a dollar in United Slates currency, the gold value of which is 97 33-100 cents, depositors realize a gain of something over onehalf per cent. Should Congress hereafter authorize the coinage of the silver dollar for circulation, the Government will no doubt promptly furnish all that may be required. A special to the Cincinnati Commercial says : Prominent Conservatives from Louisiana now in Washington show a disposition to oppose the claim of Eustid to a seat in the Sonate. They hold that he is not legally entitled to be seated, that he never was legally elected, and call to mind the circumstance that had been pretty generally lost Bight of, that Eustis was not elected by the ordinary method of the co-operation of the two houses of the L?gislature. His election was accomplished by a union of a minority of the Senate acting with a part of the Hon Be. Eleven members of tbe Senate joined a majority of the House in the eleotion, leaving twentyfour Senators in the Senate Chamber transacting business without any regard to the proceedings of the so-called joint convention of the two houses in another part of the building. Upon a fair presentation of this view of the case it is believed that a great many Democrats will vote against EuBtis, It is expected that this point will attract the attention of Mr. Divid Davis, and that he will speak on it. If he does, the effect will be marked, as his views are regarded as worthy of consideration to an unusual degree. Meanwhile Pinchback looms up again as a claimant, alleging that he was elected on the 14th of January, 1875. His former claim was based on an election in 1872 or 1873. The impression is that Pinchback's recent determination to press a new claim for a seat will only result in a declaration that nobody has been properly elected for the term ending March, 1879. Ohio. Messrs. Chew & Son, of Lawrenceburg, Indiana, have purchased the Xenia Gazette.A man named Smith had his hand crushed while coupling cars at Bucyrus, Saturday. Daniel Whileeell, aged 64, dropped dead in his corn field, near Akron, Saturday noon. Miss Jennie Thompson, of Cambridge, has a two-year-old geranium that meas- ares nine and onehalf feet iu circumfer ence. A boy named Frank Shoemaker, of JNewcomerstown, one week ago l'riday lost, was bitten on the kneo by a spider, l he wound at once commenced to o well and Sunday evening the boy died in ter rible agony. The famous gas well near McConnels- ville, caught fire on Wednesday evening, and they have not yet succeeded in put ting it out. A beautiful white flame shoots out to the distance of twenty or thirty leet with a great roaring sound. .A skeleton of a human being was ex humed on the Garlaugh farm in Beaver Creek township, Ureene county, last week while excavating gravel. The skeleton was pot much decayed, showing that it had not been buried many years. It was a complete surprise to tho men digging in the pit. I he question is, whose re mains can it be? As a Mr. Doncaster, of Geauga county, was going down Court street, at Chardon. Ohio, Saturday, his horse for some reason became uneasy, and Mr. D. lumped out ol the buggy and took bold of the bits, when the horse reared up, and on coming down struck Mr. D., knocking him down, and tramping on him l mured him so ce yerely that he died that night at about eleven o clock. Philip Reiser was driving a heavy load ol corJ-woou from Alpha, Ureene county, to D.tylon, Saturday alternoon, when he was accosted by a stranger, who, after questioning him in regnrd to the weight ol tho load, stepped aside, and unknown to Reiser threw himself beneath the wagon wheels. His neck and iaw were crushed, and he died instantly. The man was an entire stranger, and one or two loose buttons were all that was in his ckrt). At Fremont, Saturday, as Daniel Mc- Carty, a workman in the foundry of D. June & Oo.'s Champion JinKice Works. w.18 pouring some Babbit metal into a mould, the steam generated from the dampness of the mould threw melted iron from the mould info McCarly s eyes, in juring one of them badly, so that he will probably lose tho night, and burning the otber considerably. J-ie is nearsighted, and Had nis face close to the opening in the mould. He may lose both eyes. Another distressing accident occurred in Cleveland, Saturday afternoon, from the use of gasoline. Mis. James R. Tim-mins, No. 90 University street, waj attempting to fill a gasoline Btove. when the stove exploded, making a great noise, and setting lire to tho carpet on the floor. Her daughter, Elizi, eighteen years of age, rusneu lo ner iencuc, but her clothing, too, caught lire, and she was very badlv burned about the lower part of her body. Mrs. ximmins was burned badly about the arms and upper part of the body. Mr. Timmins, who was in the yard, heard the screams in the house and ran in to the assistance of hia suffering wife and child. His clothing also caught fire, and he was badly burned about the face and head. They finally succeeded iu putting out tbe names, alter all had been severely innired. The house was damaged considerably by the explosion and the fire. None of them are fatally burned, but they will carry the scars its long as (hey live. Foreign. A grand reception is preuarine in Paris for General Grant. The Shah of Per.ua intends visiting London and Paris next spring. Ojmaii Pasha telegraphs that the Rou manians attacked his right wing and were repulsed. The great cotlon strike in England is augmented by the twiners and piercers of Mannock s mills. Suleiman Pasha is concentrating liis forces on tho Lorn in front of the Czaro-witch's left wing. A Smilza dispatch says rain is falling heavily with every prospect of a long continuance. The roans are all but iru- passablo. Turkish deserlers claim that food is scarce in Plevna. There are 130,000 men in the city who can only ba made to surrender by hunger, The Russians have before Kars 70,000 men. Mukhtar Pasha's army at the time of the battle did not comprise more than 40,000 men. Amongs these were fourteen battalions drawn from the garri son of Kars. Ihe Ottoman field army lost at least onethird of its strength in killed, wounded and captured. The few battalions remaining available retired upon Erzeroum, and united with the troops of Kurd Ismail Pasha and those from Pervnek form the nucleus of the new army for the relief of Jvars. The Grand Duke Michael can safely leave 40,000 men in front of Kars, and with the remaining press forward toward Eizsroum. NEWARK. The Deiredaliius of the Pot-Hnnt- ers Tho Pick as a Weapon. Newark, Ohio, Oct. 21, To the Editor of the Ohio State Journal : Pot-hunters have commenced their an nual depredations on quail in this.'part of the country. These birds, the present season being unusually plentiful, are slaughtered by these mangy cusses in great numbers. The commonest scrub among them, if industrious (these fellows all are), can make a full bag per day. They are well aware, all of them, that to shoot or destroy quail before the 15th of November is unlawful. What do they care for law, if they can evade the penalty, or for the proprieties that gentlemen give heed to? Nothing at all, Catch them poaching, and they have an excuse ready. They are out to kill a bird for a sick person. This excuse, ninety-nine timeain a hundred, is a lie, and you know it. Try to shame them for the offense 1 You can't, You might as well try to develop a blush on the face of a donkey, their half-brother. There is just one way to learn these chaps to respect law, and that is to enforce it on them when it can be proven they are violators of it. Let every gentleman in town and country make it his business to prosecute such of them as comes under his observation, and the crack of a gun out of season will be very unfrequent. Should any of the would be sportsmen anywhere take offense at the above, it will be satisfactory so far as the writer is concerned. An altercation took place near the depot, in this city, on Thursday afternoon last, between a Baltimore and Ohio section boss and one of his hands, which resulted in the boss hitting the other party in tbe back with the sharp end of a pick, driving it into him five and a half inches and penetrating one of his lungs. The injured man experienced considerable inconvenience from the wound at first, but is now comfortable, with a good prospect of being in condition for another shindy. Who can tell but that as harmless a looking tool as tke pick may not in a short time supersede thebowie and revolver? The Record of a Week at Delaware. Delaware, Oct. 20. To the Editor of ths Ohio State Journal : The affairs of Delaware have experienced little change for a week or two. On Sunday Dr. Taylor, President of Wooster University, assisted in the dedicatory ex ercises of the Presbyterian Church. The building has been remodeled, freecoed and greatly Improved in external form and internal attractiveness. The whole amount of indebtedness was paid. The society and pastor (Rev. N. Smith) seem to be active, useful and harmonious. Dr. Payne, of the University, preaches in jriqua next saouain. The University buildings are undergo ing quite extensive repairs. Prof. Semana has accepted an invita tion to deliver his course of lectures on Chemistry before. the students of the Columbus Medical College. He continues the work of Prof. Sterling, of Kenyon College, whose health, has failed. Prof. Williams has been absent tho past week, delivering a course of lectures on Urammar and Language to the Stark county teachers' institute. The Professor has usually more calls than he can nil during the college year. Prof. Nelson lectures next week before the Cuyahoga county teachers' institute General Reid, who was severely injured by being thrown from his buggy last week, is slowly improving. Schuyler Collax lectured here on Thursday evening to a small liouie. Very short notice had been given of the speaker and lus subject, ilo spoke on "Abraham Lincoln," and delivered an oration full of pathos, wit and eloquence. lown matters are quiet. The Delaware housekeeper rriuice.? iu the recent rainfall, the Delaware business man looks happy again, and the Delaware policeman leans over the saloon counter and wishes "suthin' 'ud turn up. NASBY. Hr. AinKby Assists in Ihe Ohio Elec tion Hon He Hot Into the Labor ICoveueut, anil What Ihe Result Was. Toledo Blade.J Co.vfedbit X Roads. Wicu is in the State uv Kentuck ? Oct. 15, 1877, At the rekest uv the giielis Richard Bishop, wich people supposed didn't know how to run a campaue, I camo to Toledo, Ohio, to assist in gittin together the Democratic strength, and asshoorin the triumph uv that Dimocnsy uv wich. so fur, I hev bin a ardent supporter. And I may say, in parenthesis, that Dimocrisy hez no advantage over mo in that respeck, for ef I hey bin a support to Dimocrisy, Dimocrisy hcz bin a support to me. Ihe elecshun day passed oil, and every man did his dooty. The result will gladden the heart of the Corners. We have elected our Guvernor, and we hey se-coored a majority uv Ihe Legislacher, wich gives us another Senator. Halle- loojy I But the result uv the elcckshuu in the county was a astonisher wich I hevn't bin able to account for yit. The workingmen tiy the county 'hf d organized, for the pur-pus uv bettcrin ther condishun. Sum uv em, wich reely do work, hey bed ruther a close lime, and hev bin groanin over ther troubles, but, ther are sum thousands wich don't nver work at all, and a lot of lawyers and doctors, and sich like labrin men, wich alluz do the most healthy groanin on sich okkashenH. "In the interest uy the Diuieoralik candidates, I urged the labrin men along all 1 cood, for ninetenths ny them wich does work, and which, tz 1 tiggered it, wood he troo to the movement, ulongs to the Kadi kels, nalerally, and we expectid to bring bacK the JJimekraliK lams wich bid stray ed into these pasters back into the fold on the mornin uv the eleckshun. The day passed and everything looked lovely. The labrin men wuz out in ther strength, and we wuz certain that we hed drawd enuff votes from the Radikels to in-ahoor the success uv our tikkit. And that evenin I Bot down with the candidates, and many were the beakers that wc quaff ed in jnbilatin over Ihe redenisheu uy a R;puljlikin stronghold. 1 retired that nite z happy ez a lord. and ez comfortable (z a man cood be wich bed achieved a victory. I slept the sleep uv the man wich hez discharged his dooty and is tolerable certain uy geltin his pay for it. . . . The mornin eun wuz a Btreemin thro the winder uv my room that blessed Wednesday mornin. I sent down for a paper, and while I wuz pullin on the boots tbe Dimekntic Central com mittee hed given me, I glanced at it. I wuz anxshua to leest my eyes on the triumph I hed acheeved by doopin tbe toopid workinmen into running a tikkit uv their own and throwin away ther votes. Horror I The labrin men hed swep the county. by a majority uy nearly two thousand I 1 am a man uy nrompt ackshen in all matters uy prinsipie. I may be slack in matters pertaimn to myself. 1 am crini- nelly slow in all things wich concern meerly myself. I have loitered when in- vitashens to drink hev bin extended to others, and hey santered, very frekently, so slowly as not to git in before the change wuz made; but in public matters where there is pruiBiple involved, no man kin be more prompt than l 1 lookt twice to make shoor that ther wuz no mistake about tbe majorities, and that workin men hed reely kerried the county when I started to the oftis uy the hed centre. There wuz no time to lose. I didn't want to come in at the'eleventh hour. So prompt wuz I that I went with wun boot on, and no hat. It wuz seven o'clock a. m., and ther wuz no time to lose. I enrolled myself ez a workin-iuan im-mejitly, and well it wuz that I wuz ez prompt ez I wuz, For within a minit there cum to that offis a thousand Re-publikins and Dimecrats, wich claimed the rite to enroll theirselves in the noble army uv labrin men. They cum from every direckshun. Ther wuz in that throng every man wich hed bin bustid for a nominashen in either the Republikin or Dirnekratic party, for ten years, and tbe most prom-isin assortment uv heretofore unknown offis-seekers wich I ever saw. And every blessid man uy em, without excepshun, all commenst a speech, towunst, and in korus, on rites uv the down-trodden labrin man, and all uy em howled the same speech. I saw these Bauie men yisterday workin zelusly for tbe Dimecratic or Republikin tikkets, and afore the eleckshun they hed bin most induBtrusly a standinon the corners uv the street, smokin very cheap cigars when they had to buy em theirselves, and very expensive ones when they wuz bought by other people. "Are yoo goin to take these people in ?" I shreeked in agony. "Can't yoo see that ther ain't offises enuff to go around ?" "Sir!" exclaimed they all feercely, " in this holy crooaade agin cappytle, and for the borny-handid toilers, we asBert ther is offises enuff. Ther wuz about four thousand votes, and we, who from circumstances didn't git in soon cnuf to vote, will swell the number to five thousand. Very good. Let the Sheriff-elect imme- jitly appint two thousand fitfe hundred deppyties, and the Treasurer-elect stand up lor the rites uy the labrin man, by ap-pinting two thousadd five hundred clerks, and then keep out uy the organisashen the bloatid bankers, merchants, and them ci own shops and sich, so that we kin tax tliem, to pay our salaries. We shell keep out enuff cappytle to tBX to support us. Cappytle hez hed its sway, so far-laber comes in." And they yotid to keep the books open iiu nine mai aay, and men close 'em, i her didn't any more come, thank hevin, The nartv in utmna annff'tn tint,l 1.A but, merciful hevinBl onlesa the sejestion a uuv 4ioieu it acuu onto, wnai are tbey all agoin to do ? They kin elect a Coun cil, next spring, and that Council kin vote to pay the labrers $50 a day, but they wou't take that. Ez they all expect offis. wat good will it be to offer 'cm work nt any price? I sympathizs with the labrin man, jist afore every elekshun. but I think I shell git out uy tho organizashen and go back to Kentucky wher ther ain't any laber done that hurts. Ther is too eager an amire- Bhiaehen uv offis to make it comfortable lor a man like me, and the ranks uv the labrin men are likely to be swelled too fast for my purpus, Wat chance is ther for one man among five thousand, and all uy era as Keen ez 1 am 1 The temprense movement is hevin a run up ther, but I indignantly refoczed to jine it. i wuz askt to deliver a tem prense lecter, but I declined. "I'm not a reformed drunkard," Eed I. "That's easily fixed." remarked the rekester. "All yoo hey to do too is to quit." 1 heerd one man make a speech on the street corner. Rum, like the grasehoiiDer." Bed he. is a oilmen. went home last night, and went to the pantry for suthin to eat, and it wuz bare. I looked at my wife and children, and ther they BOt. cold and hungry. Ther wuz no food, no fooel, iu the house wat ehood hev pervided for em hed gone for rum. Fz I looked into ther pale, pinched faces, and ther euiauhated forms, awakened conehense strove with me, and I then and there took a solemn oath never to drink aeain onless I wuz asked." The eleckshun in Ohio is a triumnh butitdou't do me any good. Therain't no way uv reeching my postofiia for three years, and I can't wait. I Bhel be in the silent tomb before that, and the worms will be at me. Still. I did my dooty. PETROLEUM V. NASBV. Workin-man, TO ENLIST AS A SEAMAN, The Condition on Which a Phi In. delphla Ranker's Hon Escapes Arrest.Sergeant O.ttes, of the First Precinct. arranged for forgery before Justice Flain-mer at the Tombs Police Court yesterday a fashionably dressed young man named E. G. Slewart, the aon of E. N. Stewart, a Philadelphia banker. Young Slewart for some time past had been visiting down town bankers, presenting drafts for various small sums purporting to be signed by his father in Philadelphia. A few days go he obtained from Messrs. Sterntt Colburn !j70 and from Messrs. M. Lockwocd & Co. $40. These firms reported the matter at the First precinct station house, and the re sult was the arrest of young Slewart yes- teruay. un his person were found a number of epurions drafts for sums varying from $25 to $80. In court he admitted his guilt and said that he had gambled unsuccessfully with the money he nan obtained on the dratts. Several gentlemen, friends of his father, were in Court and explained to Justice Flammer that all the drafts would be duly honored in Philadelphia. It appears the father, on learning it was his son who was uttering these drafts, telegraphed this fact to the gentlemen. Justice Flammer considered the matter, and finally allowed the complainant, Mr. Lonkwood, to withdraw his complaint, the only one taken so far. Justice Flammer said he would permit this for the sake of the young man's father and his family, on the condition, however, suggested by the young man's friends, that ho forthwith enlist in the United States Navy. He promised to do this, and was discharged. It was said in Court that he had frequently been guilty of similar acts in Philadelphia, but that his father had always hon ored tne oralis to save bis son irom arrest. Aent, Insure Thyself. Philadelphia Bulletin. 1 An insurance agent whose buccinater muscles had been developed during a long and highly successful business career to a most astonishing degree ol hardness, and whose fertility of imagination was equaled only by his fluency of expression, while professionally engaged in the lm penetrable forests of South America, fell in one day with a huge boa constrictor, " Tell me, my saurian friend," asked he, " have you as yetffectedan insurance upon your very valuable life ? " The boa constrictor merely wiggled its tail slightly and winked nervously with its lei l eye. ihe insurance agent, how ever, regarded these actiona as implying a negation, and briskly continued, The act of insuring one's life in an entirely reliable company such a; The Great Chizzlum, which I have the hon or to represent is a duty that every individual owes to his fam ily or friends. You, my dear serpent lead a life of constant danger, and al though the character of the risk will com pel me to charge you somewhat more than the usual rates, think, think, my good sir, what a sense of acquiescent re liance in tbe decrees of Providence will accrue to you when you know that, come what will, your large and interesting wife and tamuy always will be comfortably provided lor. "ray permit me to con sider the matter as settled and forthwith to make out an application in your name for a policy." Having listened patiently to this long discourse, at its conclusion the Boa Constrictor turned its regard calmly upon the insurance agent, and in a gentle voice observed, "ion, l presume, long since have enected an insurance unon your own life, and now feel the calm pleasures that you noiu out to me," "JN-no, replied the insurance aeent. somewhat disconcerted by the turn given to the conversation; "N-no. I reerret to state that I have not. The fact is" 'The fact is," said the Boa Constrictor, taking up his unfinished sentence, "that you have committed a capital error. My life, I trust, will be prolonged for yet a considerable period; but yours, I opine, is worth but a few moments' purchase." Having said this, the boa constrictor crushed the insurance agent to a jelly, licked him all oyer, and swallowed him whole. Moral. A man does well to adjust his own affairs before meddling with tbe affairs of others. A Percussion Torch. New Haven Register. The New Haven Gas Light company are having made a percussion torch to be used by the lamplighters in lighting the public gaa lamps about the city. This invention will do away wii the former custom of. climbing the lamp-posts and striking a match. The torch consists of a small perforated brass cylinder at one end of a three-foot rod, while at the other end, in connection with the handle, is a pin or lever which, upon being pulled down, discharges a small quantity of ful- ruinate wilhin the cylinder, which in stantlv iornites LfiA pas. The cost of the fulminate is something less than thaUf AW DEALERS SUPPLIED. lOO SOUTH matches. To facilitate the use of the torch, and also on account of other merits it is said to possess, the company have adopted an improved valve, the use of which, together with the torch, is likely to prove a matter of economy and convenience in street lighting. Plautn Tor Vases. A writer in the Garden offers some good suggestions in regard to planting vases, the substance of which we copy, as giving much valuable information. The most suitable positions for them, ho says, are the sides of flights of steps at each side of a doorway, on terrace walks, or along a balustrade; they should not be placed too near windows, nor should they be anywhere crowded. Various materials are employed in the manufacture of vases, such as stone, iron, and plaster, but the best are made of terra-cotta. Vases are of various sizes and chapes, some being broad and shallow, others deep and nar row. The shape of the vaso will determine the style of planting. A flat vase should be planted with rather dwarf plants with trailers hanging over the rim. Deep and narrow vases on the contrary should be furnished with tall plants. It would be out ot character to plant a tulip- shaped or oriental vase with very dwarf plants; they require to be furnished with something tall end having drooping branches, as for instance a fuchsia. As a rule vases do not receive the attention they deserve. They are frequently left until the last, and tilled with odds and ends after the beds in the flower garden have been planted. Vases beforo being planted should he well drained, and the best of soil for them is turfy loam and rotten manure, to which may be added a little leaf mould. Most of the plants ussd for garden decoration will be found suitable for vases. Geraniums will in variably form the staple, but to them may ba added lobelias, lucheias, centanrea- gymnocarpa merembryantbemums, ivy-leaved geraniums, tropieoluma, and heli-otropsB, to which we add niau- randyas, variegated periwinkle, ach-ryanthns, coleue, the new trailer pylogeno, and in our climate for the center dracsens; other plants he says may be also used with good effect. In planting a broad, flat vase, begin at the rim with plants that will hang over the edge, Biich as lobelias, ivy-leaved gerani ums and troricoleums. Lst the next circle consist of Bomewhat taller plants, such as variegated geraniums, and finish off with the tallest in tho center. When tropseDlums or ivy-leaved geraniums are used for dressing tho sides, it is a good plan to run one or two pieces of copper wire round the outside or the vase to which to tie the plants, in order that they may not bo chafed by the wind. 'Ihe petunia is a useful plant for vases, inasmuch as it flowers more profiiBely when pinched for root-room than when unrestricted in that respect, but it requires plenty of water; watering, in deed, will demand careiul attention throughout the summer, and when the plants have made good root growth liquid manure may be given twice weeK. ... as regards boxes, in Western London it has become fashionable for every window to become a miniature flower garden, on which considerable Bums are annually spent, and notwithstanding the smoke and dirt they look remarkably gay. For window boxes, like vases, we have a large variety of suitable plants, among which may be named stocks, asters, geraniums, fuchsias, mig nonette, and musk, as also lobelia, ivy- geraniums, anu mcsemDryanthemums to hang over the sides, and canary-bird flowers trained on strings up the sides, to the top of the windows, so as to form an arch. A Few Words to Girls. Exquisite manners, let me tell you, are worth several other polite accomplish ments put together, vv hen l see a school girl who remembers to ofl'er her seat to an older lady or an elderly gentleman; who remembers to give the newspaper to her father when he comes down to breakfast and has only a few moments to read its world Bheaf of news; who remembers that it is not kind to hurry her elder sister's reading of some attractive book, nor polite to begin the book until the other has finished it; who remembers toBhut the doors softly, and to find places in the Bible for aged eyee, to be good to the little hindering ones who are always craving something from Bister, and who remembers always to be a lady everywhere, I am sure that I have found one who will be a queen of home, if not of Bociety. A graceful, gracious, tender, considerate girl will inevitably make a glorious woman by fnd by. From the sweet, half opened bud there will be evolved the rich perfection of the lovely flower. You niust think it troublesome sometimes to be so particular as to the way you speak to the people in your bouse. "It is only brother Dan or cousin Matilda," you Bay; "why should I modulate my voice and Boften my tones, and be so gentle in my bearimr just to them ; .because it is tbe being loyeiy ana courteous anu winsome every day and all day, to the brother or cousin, to the companion and the friend, to the child and the servant, which will mould you insensibly into a gentle woman, whose manners win ue as much a part of her self aB the inner fiber of her character. To such a one it will be as impossible to commit an act of rudeness as lo tell a lie, and as natural to say and do agreeable things as to put on her gloves before going to church. Christian at Work. Transplanting:. The only advantage which is claimed for fall transplanting over spring transplanting, is that the roots become settled in the ground and new fibers are formed which induce an earlier spring growth and a more reciprocal action between leaves and roots. We are not advocates of fall transplanting for the climate of Chicago, BoBton, or even New York, except for those plants which are never in jured by our severe cold or extremes of temperature. Hut for those who have already settled upon transplanting this fall, we would say do it now as Boon as it can be well done. If it is a fact that the roots will make a fibrous growth hich is not killed by alternations of freezing and thawing, then the sooner they are transplanted the better, after the leaves have ceased to act. This may be ascertained by the first discoloration of the leaves, which is proof that their cella are clogged with insoluble matter, that iney no longer receive sap irom ine roots, IPS S3 13 ;0. Will have on sulo till l'urthernoilce. POTATOES, CABBAGE And APPLES, lly tbe car load or In lots to suit purchasers. Also, Sweet Potatoes, Onions, Quinces," Grapes, Chestnut?, Etc. POUBLTH STREET. DIED. Rddisill On Sunday, October 21st, Edwin, son of Rev. J. E. and Tillio M. Kudi-sill, aged four years and nine months. Funeral services at Wesley Chapel at 2 o'clock p. m. to-day. Lynab Geo. Lynas, Sr., at his residence, EaBt Third avenue, Saturday, October 20, 1877, at 1:30 p. m. Funeral will take place from the family residence, No. 24 East Third avenue, at 2:311 p. m. Kriends are invited to attend without further notice. SnAFFBE Doctor Jacob Shaffer, at his residence, Jefferson township, Saturday, October 20, 1877, at 4 p. m., aged eighty-three years one month and eighteen dys. The funeral will take place at Reynolds-burg, Tuesday, at 10 o'clock a.m. Dispatch copy and charge Journal. HrjTCUESON In Philadelphia, Pa., October 21st, Lcaas7iA D. Hdtcubbon, wife of the late Joseph Ilutcheson, daughter of the late David W. Deshler. Notice of funeral hereafter. 2t New Advertisonaentfs. .ES Great French Remedy IH PA HIS AL0N3, 1,300,000 BOTTLES! O YEE'S Carmelite MELISSA CORDIAL (Enn lo Sfelisiciles Cannes,) 300 YEARSMiEPUTATION AS A Sovereign Kemedy In eases or Apoplexy. Paralysis, Dyspepsia, Colic, Headache, Indigestion, Pnlntuess, Chills aud Fever, Etc. Get tho genuine. Beware of imitations. Sold by all Druggists. General Depot at BUYER'S, No. 59 Park Place, New York. R. Jouc3 & fc'on,Wholesale Druggists Columbus, O, sepl7 ly lp ARTISTS' GOLUMft A large assortment of Antique Pottery ! Taken from the collections of Prof. Schlie-man, British .Museum, Indian Mounds of Ohio, and Cesnola collections. COLOIES, for decorating. BOOK of IFSIGNV IS&TIU C-TIONS.PLATFORMS, BRUSH KM, etc. COLOHSfor China Painting. OILS for China Painting. BRUSHES, elc.for China Painting, at UHLMAN1V & CLOCK'S, 218 SOI TH HIGH ST. or-.m 1v 1 4n and that they have consequently no longer the power ot elaborating material for their own Bupport or that of tho plant upon which they Btill exist. KuralJXtw xorker. Hem Way ta Pay Old Debts. A singular way to obtain payment of money due a Hindoo is for the creditor to plant himself before the door of the debt or, and vow that he means to remain there, without food, until his money is paid. As a point of honor, which it is deemed impossible to violate, the debtor must, in like manner, remain without food; and if payment is not made, the parties immediately begin to put their mutual power of enduring hunger to the test. This trial might sometimes move illusory. and, therefore, the creditor usually makes sure that the fasting of the debtor is real by cutting off his supplies. This kind of dherma, employed by troops against their paymaster, or the prime minister, or the sovereign himself, has often been effectual in obtaining their arrears of pay. In America the creditor often starves, but the debtor grows fat by paying ten cents on the dollar. A Romantic Marriage. Winnipeg Froe Prcss.l A romantic marriage was celebrated in this city a day or two ago by the Rev. Mr. Bell. Of two young men who "bached" together, one had a pretty sister down in Ontario, and it is not to be wondered at that hia chum fell in love with the fair face depicted in a portrait which the fond brother proudly exhibited. A correspondence between the admirer and admired begun, which culminated this week in tbe happy union of the twain the day after the young lady's arrival, up to which time the parties had never met. Coal Ashes as a fertilizer are said to be very beneficial for tomatoes and potatoes, and to a less extent for peas and beans, Moreover, they improve the mechanical condition of the soil, and are therefore especially beneficial to clayey and rigid land generally. They should bo worked in deeply and uniformly in the proportion of, say, one part of ashes to two parts of mold. As it takjes a long time to decompose them, their fertilizing properties are slow in action, but continuous. To obtain the best advantage from their use, some other kind of manure should be applied in conjunction with them. Aa there are seldom enough for field culture, the garden is the beat place in which to use them, and inasmuch as they are generally considered mere inconvenient refuae, all, the advantage secured from their uss, will be clear gain.